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Here's the best evidence I know of that the past 10 years have witnessed a revolution in architecture. Diller and Scofidio are getting work. For decades the husband-and-wife designer team of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio was known mostly--make that entirely--as architectural theorists, deadpan funny conceptual artists and intellectual bomb throwers. In all those roles, they made a name for themselves by questioning the most basic premises of architecture. It would be hard to imagine, for instance, a more thorough rethinking of what makes a building than a project they completed for the Swiss Expo...
Although the Blur Building was both a crowd pleaser and an ingenious intellectual conundrum--just how many elements can you subtract from a building and still have it feel like a place?--working with fog did nothing to contradict Diller and Scofidio's image as thinkers in no hurry to operate with more solid materials. So it's a sign of significant clients' openness to new ideas that the pair have somehow joined the ranks of sought-after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller...
Even if Rockwell's designs never enter the architectural canon, he has fans in unusual places. He has collaborated with Diller + Scofidio, the most cerebral, academic architectural studio of the moment. (It has just beat out several big-name firms in a competition to design the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.) Rockwell invited Diller + Scofidio to work on a project that was never built, but the two firms got on so well that they worked together on building a viewing platform at ground zero in New York City...
What happens when folks used to the rarefied air of conceptual art have to operate at ground level? It's a plunge avant-garde architect-artists Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio made when they agreed to renovate a New York City restaurant...
Would-be clients will have to compete with a cloud. Diller and Scofidio's next project is a space for Swiss Expo 2002 that will sit high above a lake in Yverdon-les-Bains, shrouded in mist created by 15,000 high-pressure water nozzles...